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Fall Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled…
- And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal…
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.
- Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
- The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
More Fall Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or… — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon